McCaffrey announces move from Nebraska to Louisville
Luke McCaffrey is headed to Louisville.
The former Valor Christian standout and Nebraska quarterback announced on Twitter Monday that he is transferring to the University of Louisville.
“Excited to continue my athletic and academic career at the University of Louisville,” he tweeted. “Go Cardinals!”
McCaffrey, the youngest son of UNC Bears head coach and former Broncos receiver Ed McCaffrey, entered the transfer portal in January.
As a redshirt freshman for the Cornhuskers in 2020, he completed 48-of-76 passes for 466 yards and a touchdown.
He also had 65 carries for 364 yards and three touchdowns on the ground. Prior to the start of the season, he lost a bid for the starting job to Adrian Martinez.
The 6-foot-2, 200-pounder was listed as a four-star recruit by 247Sports and ESPN, and three-star by Rivals. He received a bevy of FBS offers in high school, including ones from Colorado and Colorado State.
Louisville’s Mack on video: Not a good look.
Louisville coach Chris Mack says it was “not a good look” for him to be shown in a viral video maskless while celebrating the Cardinals’ Dec. 26 victory over rival Kentucky.
The 33-second video, tweeted Saturday night by Drew Franklin of Kentucky Sports Radio, shows the third-year Louisville coach with former Cardinals football player Eric Wood playfully mocking the 62-59 win while celebrating Christmas with family and neighbors who stopped by his house.
Wood yells in the clip that former Kentucky associate head coach Kenny Payne, now with the NBA’s New York Knicks, was responsible for the Wildcats’ previous victories over the Cardinals before noting he’s gone and that coach John Calipari “will never beat U of L again.”
Mack tried to offer context to the video during a virtual news conference Monday, explaining that some of his neighbors were golfing buddies of Payne and wanted to “give him grief” for the game. The coach also recognized the potential fallout for appearing to go maskless during the pandemic, even in his own home.
“I’ve got to do better,” he said.
Unbeaten No. 2 Baylor back to play after 3-week COVID break.
Jared Butler and still-undefeated No. 2 Baylor are ready to get back to playing games after a three-week break because of COVID-19 issues in the program.
The Bears (17-0, 9-0 Big 12) are set to resume their season Tuesday night at home against Iowa State. It will be their first game since Feb. 2 and the first of three games in five days.
“Seeing everybody else play, I kind of feel like I’ve been missing out,” Butler said Monday during a Zoom call from the campus in Waco, Texas. “What do you call it when your parents punish you and you can’t go outside and play with your friends? That’s what it’s been feeling like.”
Baylor has had six games postponed since an 83-69 win at No. 14 Texas, when the Bears matched the best start in school history. They were also 17-0 in 2011-12.
Michigan’s Harbaugh adds another coach off brother’s staff. ANN ARBOR, MICH.» Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has added another assistant off his brother’s coaching staff.
Harbaugh announced Monday he hired Baltimore Ravens running backs coach Matt Weiss to lead Michigan’s quarterbacks.
Weiss worked with John Harbaugh in Baltimore and was a part of the Ravens’ staff the past 12 seasons. He previously coached Baltimore’s receivers and quarterbacks.